Sentences with phrase «process frack waste»
Unless your definition of «fracking» only includes the instant when holes are blown in the pipe, every state has had water and ground pollution from spills, traffic accidents, poor casing jobs, attempts to process frack waste through biological waste treatment plants not designed for that, etc..
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In an effort to ensure that AbTech filters would be used in the fracking process, the Capitol Group lobbyists reached out to Sens. Tom O'Mara, Tom Libous, and Michael Nozzolio, all of whom had areas in their districts that were susceptible to fracking to see how they felt about trucks transporting waste water in and out of their districts.
Since 2008, ProPublica has reported about hundreds of cases of water contamination in more than six states where drilling and fracking are taking place as well as the difficulties of handling the vast quantities of waste the drilling processes produce.
In 2011, the EPA made the determination that fracking waste is too radioactive (from exposure to underground cesium and uranium) to be processed in municipal waste facilities.